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Month: August 2015
Asia
Taliban confirm chief’s death, pick successor
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and other stakeholders in Afghanistan are scrambling to organize a response to the sudden disclosure that Taliban chief Mullah Omar has been dead for sometime and a council of the […]
India
DELHI COURT TO HEAR ANTI-SIKH RIOTSCASE AGAINST TYTLER ON AUGUST 14
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court on July 30 fixed August 14 for hearing a case in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report giving a clean chit to Congress […]
India
Tender for acquisition of 126 jets cancelled
NEW DELHI (TIP): After eight years, the defence ministry has cancelled the 2007 global tender to buy 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force, whose squadron strength nosedived in the last decade. “The Request […]
India
India
14 SC judges dealt with Yakub’s petitions since 2013
NEW DELHI (TIP): Yakub Memon has been executed but he has left behind a litigation record that will be difficult to break – his petitions were dealt with by as many as 14 judges of […]
India
YAKUB FIRST TO BE HANGED IN MAHARASHTRA AFTER KASAB
MUMBAI (TIP): The hanging of Yakub Memon on July 30 in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people lost their lives and over 700 were injured, is the first execution of death sentence […]
India
Embarrassed Cong disowns Digvijaya, Tharoor remarks on Yakub hanging
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress on July 30 scrambled to disown the controversial remarks of its party leaders Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor over the hanging of Yakub Memon. With finance minister Arun Jaitley pouncing on […]
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U.S., Russia: The Case for Bilateral Talks
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an […]
Asia